Liquid-dispensing device.



G. E. BATES.

LIQUiD DiSPENSlNG DEVICE.

APPucATloN msn MAY 12. 191s4 1 ,283,457. Patented Nov. 5, 1918.

,4 TTORNEYS UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

GEORGE E. BATES, 0F SYRAOUSE, NEW YORK.

LIQUID-DISPENSING DEVICE.

Application led May 12, 1916.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. BATES, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Liquid-Dispensing Device, of which the followm is a specification.

This invention has or its object a liquid dispensing device especially applicable for dispensing liquid soap which device is particularly simple in construction and highly efficient and durable in use, and the invention consists in the combinations and constructions hereinafter set forth'and claimed.

In describing this invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which like characters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of this liquid dispensing device, the parts being shown as in their starting position and the contiguous part of a supporting Wall being also shown.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary view of parts seen in Fig. 1, showing the position of the movable parts when the liquid is being discharged.

This device comprises generally, a container for the liquid, a receiver arranged in position to receive liquid from the container and means for forcing or discharging the liquid from the receiver.

1 designates the container which may be of any suitable form,.size and construction.

2 designates the receiver which is a portion of al tubular bracket 3 extending horizontally from a supporting wall 4, and provided with a suitable base 5 which may be secured to the wall 4 in any suitable Inanner as by screw 6.

As here shown, this bracket is tubular and is formed with a plug 7 located between the ends thereof. 4

This bracket is here shown as formed with an upwardly extendin hollow nipple 8 on its upper side on whio is mounted the base 9 of the container 1.

The nipple constitutes the inlet for the receiver 2 and is formed at its lower end with a smaller opening 10 which opens into the receiver 2.

The means for discharging liquid from the receiver 2 comprises a lunger 11 movable in the receiver throng the front end Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 5, 1918.

Serial No. 97,034.

thereof, in line with the axis of the bracket, a space being provided in front of the plunger to receive the liquid to be discharged, the inlet opening 10 opening into the receiver in front of the position occupied by the plunger when in its starting position. The plunger is formed with a stem 12 which extends in front of the end of the tubular bracket and provides a shoulder against which a nut 13 turns for holding the plunger in position, this nut threading into the front end of the tubular part of the bracket.

The outlet for the liquid in the receiver extends in a direction lengthwise of the plunger' and is preferably formed in the plunger and opens through the periphery thereof, and means is provided for normally closing the outlet passage and holding the same closed until the plunger has traveled inwardly a predetermined distance far enough to cut oli the inlet 10. This outlet passage is preferably closed by a movable valve carried by the plunger, and means provided for unseating the valve after the plunger has been moved inwardly a predotermined distance.

As here shown` the outlet passage 1st eX`- tends substantially coaxi'ally of the plunger and is formed with a laterally extending branch 15 opening through the periphery of the stem of the plunger at point. far enough in advance of the front end of the bracket to permit said branch to remain in advance of the front end of the bracket when the plunger is pushed inwardly.

The passage 14 is also formed with a valve seat 16 against which a spring pressed valve 17, carried by the plunger, normally seats, this' valve 17 and its spring being located in the enlarged extension 18 of the passage 14: which extension opens at its front end through the front end of the stem of the plunger.

A suitable cap 19, which constitutes the hand engaging part of the plunger, closes the open front end of this passage 18.

The means for unseating the valve includes a rod 2O extending lengthwise of the passage 14. this rod being preferably stationary and carried by the block 7 and hav plunger to move far enough to eut o" ihe inlet opening 10 of the receiver 2. Owing to the arrangement of the rod in the passage 14 said rod prevents the passage from becoming clogged.

The plunger is normally held from turning by a rod 21 carried by said plug 7 and extending into a socket 22 in the end of the plunger.

23 is a spring located in the receiver in position to resist inward movement of the plunger and to return it to its normal position.

In operation, the parts are normallyl in their positions shown in Fig. 1 in w ich the liquid is free to pass into the receiver 2 in front of the plunger 11. Upon pushin inwardly on the plunger 11 it first cuts o the inlet. 10, and thereafter the end of the rod 20 uiiseats the valve 17 so that t-he liquid is forced through the outlet passage 14 and through the lateral branch 15` ln use, the same hand that forces the plunger inwardly can be conveniently held So that the soap will be discharged int/o the palm thereof.

This device is particularly advantageous in that it consists in a small number of compactly arranged parts, and further in that owing to the arrangement of the valve and its operating rod obstructing the outlet passage is positively prevented.

That I claim is:

1. A liquid dispensing device comprising a base formed with a passage therein, a container for the liquid communicating with said passage whereby the liquid Hows from the container into the passage, a plunger movable in the passage, the plunger having a lengthwise passage opening through its inner end and an angularly arranged outlet port communicating with said lengthwise passage near the outer end thereof, a' spring pressed valve arranged to close said lengthwise passage adjacent said port at the outer end of the same, and means for unseating the valve durin the inward movement of the plunger, su stantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A liquid dispensing device comprising a base formed with a passage therein, a container for the liquid communicating with said passage whereby the liquidfiows from the container into the passage, a plunger movable in the passage, the plunger having a lengthwise passage opening through lits inner end and an angularly arranged outlet port communicating with said lengthwise passage near the outer end thereof, a spring pressed valve arranged to close said ort, and means for unseating the valve durin the inward movement of the plunger, su stantially as and for the purpose specified. I

'3. A liquid dispensing device comprising a base formed with a passage therein, a

container for the li uid communicating with said passage where y the liquid flows from the container into the assage, a plunger movable in the passage, t e plunger having a lengthwise passage, and an singularly arranged port communicatin wit said assage, a spring pressed va ve arrange to close said port, and the lengthwise passage, and means for unseatin the valve durin the inward movement o the plunger, sai means extending lengthwise of the lengthwise passage, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. A liquid dispensing device comprising a base formed with a passage therein, a container for the liquid communicating with the said passage whereby the liquid Hows from the container into the passage, a pluneimovable in the passage, the plunger having a lengthwise passage opening through its inner and outer ends and an angularly arranged outlet port communicating with said lengthwise passage near the front end of the plunger, a cip closing the front end of the passage, a spring pressed valve in said lengthwise passage near the out/arend of the same, and arranged to close said port and the passage, the spring of said valve being interposed between the cap and the valve, and means for unseating the valve during the inward movement of the plunger, said means extending lengthwise of the lengthwise passage` substantially as and for the purpose described.

5. A liquid dispensing device comprisingr 100 a base formed with a receiving passage therein, a container for the liquid having an outlet opening into said receiving passage whereby the liquid ows from the container into the passage, a plunger movable in the passage and arranged to cut oil' the outlet after said plunger is moved a predetermined distance, the plunger having a lengthwise passage opening through its inner end and an angularly arranged outlet port communicating with said lengthwise passage near the outer end thereof, a spring pressed valve in the passage and arranged to normally preventthe How of liquid through the port, and means for unseating the valve during the inward movement of the plun er and after said plunger has cut off the out et of the container, substantially as and for the pur ose s eciied.

6. A iqui dispensing device comprising a base formed with a receiving passage therein, a container for the liquid having an outlet opening into said receiving pas-` port communicating with said lengthwise' extending lengthwise of the passage, subpassage near the outer end thereof,a spring stantially as and for the pur ose set forth. l0 pressed valve in the passage and arranged In testimony whereof, I ave hereunto to normally prevent the flow of liquid signed my name, at Syracuse, in the county through the port, and means for unseating of Onondaga, and State of New York, this the valve during the inward movement of 16th day of February, 1916* the plunger and after said plunger has cut off the out-let of the container, said means GEORGE E. BATES. 

